Sugar Cookies and Bazsnatches
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My grandma didn’t speak English when she got to America, though they said in Armenian she was a poet.
The only poetry I ever heard out of her was when she called cockroaches Bazsnatches and mice Chitterplums.
The Venetian Motel has plenty of each.
The Venetian takes in overflow from the Core City Shelter when the temperature drops below 15 degrees.
Just my luck that on Christmas Eve the thermometer hit 9 degrees, and the shelter gave me a voucher for the Venetian.
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